Notes of discussion recorded in November 1988. Click on the picture to read the minutes of the Council Meeting. ... Continue Reading ➨
Masorti
Three Views on the Jacobs Controversy
Originally published in Mosaic, 11 (Autumn 1964). Click on the picture to read this piece in Mosaic. ... Continue Reading ➨
There is an urgent need for a self-critical truth-seeking voice
Originally published in The Times. The issues behind a bitter row 50 years ago are still crucial today, says Jonathan Wittenberg. “When I was having my little affair,” my teacher Rabbi Dr. Louis Jacobs liked to joke. But the Jacobs Affair, as ... Continue Reading ➨
An ancient affair that never really ended – JC column by Chaim Bermant
Originally published in The Jewish Chronicle, 31 December 1993, p. 19. Does anyone remember the Jacobs Affair? If people have forgotten, they are likely to be reminded in the coming months. The affair erupted in 1962, when Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs ... Continue Reading ➨
Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg – The Jacobs Affair taught us we need to talk together
Originally published in The Jewish News, 6th March 2014. Fifty years ago, in February 1964, the Board of the New West End wrote to the president of the United Synagogue to protest the decision of the Chief Rabbi “to withhold consent to the recall ... Continue Reading ➨
We are as they were
Originally published in Masorti Magazine (1993). Rabbi Jacobs, the first speaker, contrasted the attitude of the United Synagogue at the present day, with that of its past. “If you look into its history”, he said, “the United Synagogue was once ... Continue Reading ➨
The Abuse of Halacha
Originally published in Masorti Matters, February 1994. Rabbi Jacobs gave a comprehensive lecture on this subject. Because of the importance of the topic Rabbi Jacobs will be writing a paper which will be published by Masorti. The following is a ... Continue Reading ➨
